History’s largest coffee break occurred on this day on Coffee Morning in 1996 when 513,569 people drank coffee simultaneously in 14,652 groups throughout the United Kingdom. The event raised $28.46 million for the Macmillan Cancer Support charity.

The first ever Coffee Morning happened in 1990. It was a rather small affair with a simple idea: guests would gather over coffee and donate the cost of their cuppa to Macmillan in the process. It was so effective, the company did it again the next year “ only this time nationally. Since then, Coffee Morning has raised over $261,769,800 with annual Coffee Mornings throughout the UK.